The announcement followed a resolution by the Athens Municipal Council calling for the Region of Attica to stop implementing its programme agreement and for the Prosfygika community to suspend the hunger strike.

‘We will continue the struggle by other means,’ the community said.

‘We consider the struggle victorious, as a wave of resistance from below that managed to form a broad and expanded front against the politics of death,’ community members said, announcing that the struggle would continue through other means.

Earlier, the Athens Municipal Council approved by majority a resolution calling for the Region to stop implementing the programme agreement and for the Prosfygika community to suspend the hunger strike, Athens mayor Haris Doukas said in a post.

The resolution also proposed that the Region and the Prosfygika community ‘take a step back and immediately proceed to an institutional dialogue with the participation of the Municipality, in order to find a commonly accepted solution’.

‘In these critical hours, our faction, Athens Now, and Open City put the protection of human life above all else,’ Doukas said.

According to Doukas, the Athens Now and Open City factions approved a resolution calling for the suspension of Aristotelis Chantzis’s hunger strike and the cessation of implementation of the Region’s contract.

His post in full:

‘In these critical hours, our faction, Athens Now, and Open City put the protection of human life above all else.

‘They approved a resolution calling for the suspension of Aristotelis Chantzis’s hunger strike and the cessation of implementation of the Region’s contract.

‘We call on the government and the Region to respond to our proposal and to immediately initiate a dialogue with the Prosfygika community, with the contribution of the Municipality of Athens, which has specific responsibilities in the matter, so as to put a definitive end to the tension.

‘We also ask the political parties to contribute through their interventions to finding a commonly accepted solution.’

In their announcement today, the hospital doctors treating Chantzis said:

‘The hunger striker is hospitalised due to acute Wernicke’s encephalopathy with diplopia and ataxic gait, while he also presents serious electrolyte disorders that predispose him to life-threatening arrhythmias. His health condition remains extremely critical, with very serious, persistent hypoglycaemic episodes, while due to a swallowing disorder caused by muscle weakness, he has experienced aspiration into the respiratory system and hypoxia. Generalised severe muscle weakness has also affected the respiratory muscles and the muscles of the face and eyes. He is being administered inhaled bronchodilators and oxygen via nasal cannula.’

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